That feeling when you introduce one of your creative writing students to the music of Allison Russell, & then you drive an hour to hear that student play original songs to a dinnertime audience at a winery and...she covers Russell's "The Returner." Thanks, Anna Byrde! And thank you, Allison Russell!

#MusicChallenge #MotherNatureSong Day 16 🎵 Hozier feat. Allison Russell, Wildflower and Barley 2024 🩷 youtu.be/cCwMalnfor4?...

“Springtime” Allison Russell youtu.be/EF6VjYqoBQQ?...

#CarlsChallenge Song that got you into a favorite artist or band ... Allison Russell "Nightflyer" NPR Tiny Desk has introduced me to some amazing artists. youtu.be/RNJgwj8d9eo?...

Gangstagrass & Allison Russell #bestsongheardtoday There ain't no kings In the USA Your not god (motherfucker) No matter what u say You break ur word (hey, hey) You steal and lie But u can't break us No matter how u try (OLE!) No Kings In The USA ✊ song.link/NoKingsUSA #musicchallenge #musicsky

#MotherNatureSong Final choice of the month, and we return to One half of Birds of Chicago for a double dose of loveliness JT NERO ( if you listen hard enough you’ll hear Allison Russell too) • MOUNTAINS/FORESTS youtu.be/U18C5Ba2vQE?... • DOUBLE HELIX (Rainbow) youtu.be/yLM0R756ULY?...

#ReadAndPlay 📚▶️ #MusicChallenge 🎶 Day 491 Allison Russell - 4th Day Prayer

#Howl-A-Ween black Allison Russell - Eve Was Black youtu.be/nAsWYNOXOcM?...

Doobie Brothers & Allison Russell - Comes a Time Forgot about this new-ish Neil tribute record, may have to order a copy. The price has been stopping me tho. This is pretty good tho! #DoobieBrothers #AllisonRussell #NeilYoung #MusicCover #MusicSky #MichaelMcDonald youtu.be/0M__GK_0dC8?...

Allison Russell & Annie Lennox – Superlover (live) Russell’s voice has an easy warmth, almost conversational. Lennox comes in with that unmistakable power, steady and commanding. Together they shape the song into something bold and memorable. #AllisonRussell #AnnieLennox #Superlover

To the charismatic trans neighbor of mine greeting people at the entrance to the Farmers Market who loudly thanked me for wearing my Allison Russell Rainbow Coalition shirt today: You're welcome! But thank #AllisonRussell for her leadership, her music, her glorious fight against fear & hate.

#MusicSky She’s done it again

#Howl-A-Ween devilish #BrandiCarlile #ChurchAndState One of the great resistance songs of 2025, ahead of this Friday’s new album release 🆕 💥Spectacular LIVE at Red Rocks on #NoKings day💥 🔥 #WeBelieve🔥 🌈 👊🏽 🎼 🕊️ Ft The Twins & #SistaStrings m.youtube.com/watch?v=5aiK...

#Howl-A-Ween sweet #Hozier x #SweetThing #AllisonRussell ✍🏽 #Hozier is an Artist, Writer & Freedom Singer for the Ages ~ as a bonus to his #1 Too Sweet ☕️ 🥃 , here he is reinventing Van’s classic w/an acoustic version in ⛪️ 🎼oh, oh Good god, you’re a sweet thing m.youtube.com/watch?v=HAbs...

#Howl-A-Ween trickery #IronAndWine x #GregoryAlanIsakov One of the great covers of a special song 🎼Please, remember me At Halloween Making fools of all the neighbours LIVE, The Trapeze Swinger m.youtube.com/watch?v=AiX4...

#Howl-A-Ween witchy #AllisonRussell ✍🏽 I really do believe that words are spells… Our stories, told in our own words, are medicine & healing ❤️‍🩹 🎼My great grandmother was a magic weaver #HyBrasil LIVE 2024 🔥 Funfact - Calluna is a heather used to make brooms 🧹🧙

#AllisonRussell ✍🏽 She was the prime influencer, the foundation of all of it… that’s why we cal her “The Mother of Rock and Roll” relix.com/articles/det...

You're so right! She doesn't get the credit she deserves. I love her guitar playing. I go back to this live 1964 performance of This Train a lot. youtu.be/jOrhjgt-_Qc?...

#Howl-A-Ween strange #AllisonRussell ✍🏽[people think] that there’s RockNRoll ‘cause of Elvis when there’s RockNRoll ‘cause of #SisterRosettaTharpe She invented modern 🎸 playing w/ the first use of distortion 🖤 w/by SRT in 1944, #StrangeThingsAreHappeningEveryDay m.youtube.com/watch?v=-88l...

#Howl-A-Ween Here’s Adia “A Southern Gothic” Victoria’s pick #BlindWillieJohnson AV: The 1st time I heard his blues was #DarkWasTheNight, ColdWasTheGround & it gutted me. It spoke to parts of myself that I’d never spoken to… to depths I didn’t know existed 🖤 m.youtube.com/watch?v=BNj2...

#Howl-A-Ween Before collabs with the likes of Valerie June & Allison Russell, #SunnyWar left home at 13 & was busking on Venice Beach 🎼Have no #fear in atomic energy Cos none of them can stop the time… All I ever have Redemption Songs

#Howl-A-Ween clown #AllisonRussell x #BobDylan x #KronosQuartet 🎼Heard the sound of a #clown That cried in the alley & it’s a hard & it’s a hard It’s a hard, it’s a hard It’s a hard rain’s a-gonna fall LIVE (stay til the end if u can) 80yrs post 1st atom bomb test m.youtube.com/watch?v=sPhX...

#Howl-A-Ween TV theme Tom & Jerry theme when you get possessed by jazz demons #HiromiUehara is just so electrifying & joyous On 🌍 tour now! 🎹 🇯🇵 WARNING this 🎵 breaks the Number of Notes Per Second and Number of Notes Per Song Rules 😉 🐱 🐭 🎹 😈 🔥

#Howl-A-Ween creepy #AllisonRussell ✍🏽 Thank u #Brandi… for inspiring me, for elevating everything, for leading the way 18yrs pre duets w/ Sir Elton & Fake Plastic Trees on her Glastonbury debut The very special #BrandiCarlile x #Creep 2007 LIVE 🔥 🔥 m.youtube.com/watch?v=oy53...

#Howl-A-Ween The inspiring voice for those with none #EMEL #MaLkit 🇬🇧Nov-16 🎼I couldn’t find my people I couldn’t find my family I couldn’t find comfort I couldn’t find happiness I couldn’t find my path I couldn’t find my luck I couldn’t find an ember to burn my ♥️ m.youtube.com/watch?v=GDIZ...

#Howl-A-Ween 🩸 Born of🇺🇦 parents, #NekoCase w/ a flower crown & one of her greatest songs 🎼Chimney falls as lovers 🔥 I thought that I was young Now I’ve freezing hands & #bloodless veins As numb as I’ve become This is crazy And #iWishIWasTheMoon tonight LIVE 🌙 m.youtube.com/watch?v=JbPD...

#Howl-A-Ween 🖤 #AllisonRussell ✍🏽 [what] makes me sad is the digitising of the human creaks & cracks & imperfections out of music I’m allergic to that kind of perfection I revere #NinaSimone, artists who allow musical imperfection & 🎶moments to breathe LIVE 🔥 🎹 m.youtube.com/watch?v=NWmC...

Today is my dad’s 💯 birthday! 🎈 🎂 🎉 I love how songs bond us together so here he is keeping traditions alive w/ Norfolk’s finest The Singing Postman 🎵 Hev Yew Gotta Loight Boy? 🚬 🥰 Thank you for everything 🥰

#Howl-A-Ween #AllisonRussell ✍🏽#AnnieLennox is an artist for the ages…Thank you for inspiring me… I bless the day we met Love Song For A #Vampire ♥️ 🦇 ♥️

#Howl-A-Ween spooky A change of mood & change of scene - welcome to the world of the brilliant 🎸 queen of Austin, Texas #JackieVenson #Witchcraft 🪄 LIVE 🎸 m.youtube.com/watch?v=ejf_...

#Howl-A-Ween #AllisonRussell ✍🏽 All the #pain of the world…can be heard in this rendition #Billie’s world-wounded voice compels us from beyond the grave She was hounded by gov authorities who tried to silence her. For 20 yrs she resisted & closed every set with it

#Howl-A-Ween monsters #AllisonRussell ✍🏽Our trauma can be the mother of empathy, of compassion #Demons is about looking our traumas, our fears our pain - on micro & macro levels - in the face & not letting them drive the bus. LIVE ft some special JoyClark guitar 😈 m.youtube.com/watch?v=BH-D...

#Howl-A-Ween break-up #AllisonRussell ✍🏽 When Joni sings, when Joni writes, we cry… Her influence is incalculable 🎼You’re sad & you’re sorry but not ashamed #LittleGreen have a happy ending LIVE 1967 (pre Blue, w/ ref to giving her daughter “Kelly” to adoption) 💙 m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQzM...

#firstnameinsong #AllisonRussell on #KrisKristofferson ✍🏽 He radiated kindness & soul. He’s everywhere now & his love will never die 🎼Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose… #MeAndBobbyMcGee 🛻 m.youtube.com/watch?v=IOoM...

Willie and Kris were so good to Sinéad on the night and following that outrageous evening. Two fabulous song choices. Absolutely lovely. Leaving this here as a companion piece, if you dont mind: youtu.be/3HwWDOQoCBM?...

#Howl-A-Ween Disguise In Oct-92, #SineadOConnor was blackballed by media & booed at a Dylan tribute show The day after, #WilliieNelson invited her to his studios The 🎶 they made? #DontGiveUp 🎼I changed my face, I changed my name But no one wants u when u lose 🫂 m.youtube.com/watch?v=ADYm...

And on an equally joyful and life-affirming theme to Andrea, only with less tears, here’s Hiromi Uuehara and her amazing jazz version of this classic… 🎹 🎵 ♥️ 💃 m.youtube.com/watch?v=lpc1...

And on an equally joyful and life-affirming theme to Andrea, only with less tears, here’s Hiromi Uuehara and her amazing jazz version of this classic… 🎹 🎵 ♥️ 💃 m.youtube.com/watch?v=lpc1...

And on an equally joyful and life-affirming theme to Andrea, only with less tears, here’s Hiromi Uuehara and her amazing jazz version of this classic… 🎹 🎵 ♥️ 💃 m.youtube.com/watch?v=lpc1...

#Howl-A-Ween AndreaGibson #RIP- love letter from the Afterlife AG sat on the grass reading this poem in that moment is one of the most beautiful things in the 🌍 Feel blessed by her spirit every time I see this My ♥️, I was so wrong Dying is the opposite of leaving m.youtube.com/watch?v=wXSu...

#Howl-A-Ween unrequited love #RAYE #WhereTheHellIsMyHusband Song debut LIVE at Glastonbury 2025 m.youtube.com/watch?v=CpKc...

#Howl-A-Ween 2x Tom Waits covers today 1, a segue from y/day w/ Norah Jones stumbling delightfully thru the darkness taking the #LongWayHome m.youtube.com/watch?v=z6Tz... 2, Peter Gabriel x #InTheNeighborhood 🎼Well the eggs #chased the bacon Round the frying pan m.youtube.com/watch?v=3dxh...

#Howl-A-Ween darkness #BlueRondo ft #Aysanabee & #AllisonRussell 😊 🎼in the silence of this whispered night I listen only to your breath And in the second of a shooting star Somehow it all makes sense #LostTogether LIVE in 🇨🇦 last week m.youtube.com/watch?v=jrz9...

#MotherNatureSong @lagrume.bsky.social For a friend who passed 25yrs ago #SenNoKaze 🎶 by 🇯🇵 tenor Masafumi Akikawa, melody & 🇯🇵 lyrics by Man Arai (fr 🇺🇸 poem Do Not Stand at my Grave and Weep) 🎼A Thousand Winds I’ve become a thousand winds Blowing across that big sky m.youtube.com/watch?v=jRx0...

Annie Lennox - Why? m.youtube.com/watch?v=l1Rk...

#MotherNatureSong #MusicChallenge Mother Nature's Parasites #1 Gonna give the little guys some airtime🪱 Put on this planet like the rest of us, but nobody ever sings songs about them 🤷🏽‍♂️🙂 …or do they 😂 THE MOONGLOW TAPEWORM BIRDS OF CHICAGO (2012) song.link/s/4vF2aAiqk6...

#FirstNameInSong #BouncingBilly Grade 1 🎹 #AllisonRussell ✍🏽 It’s never too late to learn an instrument For anyone who remembers this 30sec piece from their (or their kid’s) 🎹 journey… or inspired to begin! Ending w/ the moment my son nailed it for 1st time😊

#firstnameinSong #Jackson My son fiendishly had We Will Rock You (famous 🎶 w/ a hidden Will) but he’s asked me to pick this 😊 #JuneCarter x #JohnnyCash LIVE at St Quentin June was probably one of the first women performers at a prison concert w/ JC in 1966 🎼 m.youtube.com/watch?v=AAca...